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PocketJury Con '10 Location Bidding - Rock the M-Fin' Vote

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tania:
this is personal preference again, but the thing for me is that if everything goes according to plan i will be moving to vancouver in a year for grad school and maybe to live permanently, depending on what happens. california does sound genuinely exciting and i will still probably try to make the trip there if that's where the next meetup is, but with my future plans it just makes sense to wait until i'm several hundred miles closer to that end of the country. again, though, that's just my own bias.

yelley:
I'm assuming that any meetup is going to be in the summer months, which is a ridiculous hard time for me and Jason to get time off of work. It would definitely be easiest for us to make it to a San Francisco meetup since we live within driving distance and could come for just a couple of days. We could afford to get to any of the cities suggested, but that doesn't matter if we can't get the time off of work.

Aside from our own personal convenience, I do think San Francisco would be the best place. Lots to do there, close to other places of interest if people want to get out of the city and go to the beach or redwood forests or something. The weather is mild in the summer. Plus I think we all forget just how many forumers there are that live in the western half of the country. Having another meetup in the same region (yes, I'm putting Chicago, Toronto, New York, and DC in the same region) would probably just mean another meetup of the same people. Not that the same people aren't awesome, but maybe we should give some of the younger/don't have as much money to burn/live hella far away forumers a chance to make it to a con too?

Portland would be my second choice; I just got back from there and it is a great place. Lots of great little shops, Powell's books can take all day, the public transit is free downtown, and it's just a clean looking city with great vibes. The hostel I stayed at was pretty excellent too, if we wanted to go that route again. Denver, San Diego, and Austin are maybes for me.

I don't think I'd go if it was in NYC... I used to go there every August before I went back to school and it is miserable there at that time of year. Plus there is just so much to do there and so many places to go that it isn't the kind of place that I like to go to with a large group of people. People that want to go to NYC, i really recommend that you take your own trip there and see what you want to see. I also think I'd skip out on DC... I want to go, but not during the summer tourist season.

Pick a good place this time guys, I really don't want to skip out on next year.

iamiam:
last year:
edith, mike, phil, tyler, julia, james, tommy, katie, mai, yelley, jason, stephen, kat, tania, james, liz, linds, johnny c, jon

this year:
edith, emilio, oli, stephen, kat, jodie, linds, may, mai, john, alex, tommy, johnny c, liz, dennis, joe hocking, jens, kris, katie

my apologies if i missed over anybody.  my point is here that i don't get what the hell everybody is talking about "avoiding the same faces".  for the most part the only people who went to both cons are the same people who are going to try and go to every one no matter where it is (probably because they are giant friendless losers irl).

if it's on the west coast, more west coast people might show.  if it's on the east coast, more europeans might show.  either way there are going to be new faces.

Ozymandias:
God I hate you, MaiAda.

iamiam:
<3 jordan

oh wait... sorry, were you at the con?

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